Since 1959, The Second City has established itself as a Chicago landmark and a national treasure. Join LLAMA for a night of improvisational comedy at the theatre that launched the careers of such comic greats as Tina Fey, John Belushi, Mike Myers, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner and countless others. A portion of the ticket price will help support future LLAMA programming.

Since 1959, The Second City has established itself as a Chicago landmark and a national treasure. Join LLAMA for a night of improvisational comedy at the theatre that launched the careers of such comic greats as Tina Fey, John Belushi, Mike Myers, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner and countless others. A portion of the ticket price will help support future LLAMA programming.

Tickets prices are $60 for ALA members and the general public and $40 for student members. They may be purchased online through the ALA Annual Conference website at www.ala.org/annual.

Tickets prices are $60 for ALA members and the general public and $40 for student members. They may be purchased online through the ALA Annual Conference website at www.ala.org/annual.

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The Printers' Ball (http://www.printers ball.org), founded by Poetry

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Sunday, 12 July 2009, 2-4pm

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At Woman Made Gallery (685 N. Milwaukee, Chicago)

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Free, all ages

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http://www.womanmade.org/poetry.html

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Chicago Underground Library

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2129 N. Rockwell

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APALA Cultural Tour Event: Tour of Historic Chinatown in Chicago

Friday, July 10, 12-3:30 p.m.

UCLA alum and Chicago Chinese American Historical Society president Gene Moy will lead a one-hour walking tour of Chicago's
Chinatown, including historic highlights such as the On Leong Tong building, family associations, places of worship, and the newer section of Chinatown with its residences, shopping and dining, and riverfront park. The tour will end with dim sum! Please RSVP so we have an exact head count to colmenar@library.ucsb.edu

LLAMA sponsors fundraiser at Chicago’s famous Second City
Tickets are now available for “A Night of Laughs at Chicago’s Second City,” presented by the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) at 7 p.m. on Friday, July 10, in conjunction with the annual conference of the American Library Association in Chicago.
Since 1959, The Second City has established itself as a Chicago landmark and a national treasure. Join LLAMA for a night of improvisational comedy at the theatre that launched the careers of such comic greats as Tina Fey, John Belushi, Mike Myers, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner and countless others. A portion of the ticket price will help support future LLAMA programming.
Tickets prices are $60 for ALA members and the general public and $40 for student members. They may be purchased online through the ALA Annual Conference website at www.ala.org/annual.

Printer's Ball lead up events, plus Chicago Underground Library
The Printers' Ball (http://www.printers ball.org), founded by Poetry
magazine with Chicago literary organizations, is an annual celebration of
print culture, featuring thousands of free magazines, books, and broadsides;
live readings and music; letterpress, offset, and paper-making
demonstrations; and much more. It's on July 31st, but don't fret! We've got
some equally festive pre-Printers' Ball events planned for the weekend of
July 10th-12th.

The Chicago Underground Library is also open for browsing on Saturday,
July 11th, from 1-5pm, and by appointment.

July 10th: Chicago Underground Library celebrates the Science of Obscurity!
An evening of new, unpublished, and in-progress works presented as science
fair experiments. The night will also feature a public book launch via
catapult and the mass purging of rejection letters--community literary
rituals in need of revival!

If you are a writer, publisher, bookmaker, or booklover of any stripe who
has recently finished writing a book, has published a book in the past year,
or just feels like taking out some aggression on a publication of your
choice, we invite you to celebrate by launching your work into space--or at
least halfway down the block. We define "book" broadly, so zines, magazines,
chapbooks, textbooks, and more are welcome. Read a paragraph, then release!

And while we're busy launching texts outside, we'll be dissecting the
mysteries of the literary universe inside. Join a dozen local, national, and
international writers as they intricately explain the scientific principles
underlying their work, real or imagined. Dioramas! Volcanoes! Colorful
graphs! Higher mathematics!

We'll cap the remarkable evening with the shredding and launch of your
collective rejection letters, so take them out of storage and cart them
along to hand over to our nurturing, accepting staff at the Rejection Table.

This event is free and for all ages. Its other attractions will include the
dazzling debut of the Chicago Underground Library's artist-designed drop
boxes, debutantes, prizes, and a raffle!

July 12th: Reading: Collaboration at Woman Made Gallery
Join curator Nina Corwin and a group of fabulous writers for this special
collaborative/ interactive reading during the "Interactive" group
exhibition, on display from June 19 to July 23, 2009.

For this event, writers work and/or performance will involve interaction
with other writers, performers, art forms, media, maybe even with the
audience. Participants in the event include Simone Muench and Philip Jenks,
collaboratively written poetry; Mars Gamba-Adisa Caulton (working with her
own music); Performance poetry duo Marty McConnell and Andi Strickland just
back from their Wandering Uterus tour; Jennifer Karmin, in a live improvised
collaboration with Chicago writers: Carrie Olivia Adams, Daniel Godston,
Laura Goldstein, Amira Hanafi, Coman Poon, and Larry Sawyer performing the
text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice; and curator Nina Corwin in collaboration
with Janice Misurell-Mitchell, internationally known improvisational
flautist.

As a SPECIAL FEATURE (time allowing), Jennifer Karmin will lead a Tag Team
reading (such as the one she presented at Links Hall during AWP) in which
audience members will be invited to participate with their own poetry.